Marketing & Design
Brand, creative, martech and the consumer, read for the decisions behind the work rather than the work alone.
Marketing and Design covers the work of making people want things, and the decisions that sit behind it. Three stories a weekday at 11: a rebrand and what it risks, a visual system and why it was built, a consumer shift and what it costs to ignore. The beats are brand strategy, creative and design, martech, and consumer insights, with a Funny lane for the campaigns that made us laugh, on purpose or otherwise. We write every summary ourselves and link to the publisher, because the reporting is theirs. What is ours is the choice, and the editor’s note under the day’s lead says why it was made. Readers here run marketing functions, design teams and agencies in India, the United States and the United Kingdom, and the stories are chosen for what travels between those markets.
Every story we have kept in Marketing & Design, newest first. Headlines link to the publisher; the tags below narrow the list.
The Tablet Market Hits a Wall
Global tablet shipments fell in Q2 2026 as rising memory costs pushed vendors to increase prices. The downturn also highlights a broader challenge: tablets are struggling to define their role in an AI-centric device market.
Editor's noteWe ran an IDC shipments note in Marketing & Design because the interesting number is not the decline, it is the reason: memory prices forced list-price rises on a category that never settled what it is for. When a device has no job, a price rise is a verdict. Watch what the AI-first pitches do to the next quarter.
